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Friday, 19 April 2013

How to have the center notifications on Android iPhone


have you wanted to have the graphics of iOS on your Android device?Definitely a lot of times and I challenge anyone of you who does not already have at least once tried to download one of those applications available on PlayStore that promise just transform the look of your Android device into a real system Apple. Of these, however, only a few actually allow you to transform the look of your device, because many especially the free ones do nothing but emulate or change the background and so consequently cause the entire system slowdowns.
In this regard then, and to fulfill the dream of many users, today I decided to introduce a new program recently available on Google Play Store still in beta, which allows you to have the old iPhone notifications on Android so that even Android users can enjoy the same functionality offered iOS users.
Obviously being still in beta, Espier Notifications still a little bit but it's still a great alternative completely free of charge to the various applications currently available on the Play Store and perhaps the only one that can make you look like your Android device to a real your Apple device and this largely thanks to the center notifications on iPhone Android . Well, let's investigate the matter more closely and analyze all the features of this program.
 

How have the center notifications on Android iPhone

 


As you can see, the application is associated with the  Espier Launcher (v2.0.9 or later) through which you can get a total customization of the entire graphical interface of your Android device. I look at the underlying image, it is possible to note how the two applications are able to transform the look Android and make it entirely similar to that of an ordinary device with iOS.


However, however, being still in beta application still has some limitations such as you can not add all the widgets that you want because at the moment are available only a relatively small number perhaps even for problems related to different devices so before Well use the app in question for you to wait to come out of the beta stage so that these issues are fully resolved.

How have the center  notifications on Android iPhone

Here's the main features of the program: 
  • Beautify the visual effect of the status bar and notification page;
  • Combine multiple notifications of an application in an intelligent way;
  • Display the toolbar on the notification page;
  • Customizing the color of the status bar for different applications;
  • Use the Notification Center to manage the various notifications and view them directly;
  • Three different styles of notification including none, banner or alert.
Once installed, the notifications are displayed as badge on app icons when using Espier Launcher V3.0 or later and if you would like to view the notifications on the lock screen, you must use the app  Espier plug Screen Locker. Obviously this 'past are just some of the useful tips for those who want to transform and then customize every part of the device with that of iOS.
Use the application is very simple but as always, I decided to bring you the most important passages:

iPhone Notifications v6.2 Apk Android


iPhone Notifications displays your device's notifications like on an iOS device
With iPhone Notifications you can greatly improve the way your device displays notifications. You can display any app's notifications the same way it would be displayed on IOS6, on your smartphone as well as on your tablet device.


The service :
* To work properly, iPhone Notifications requires that you activate the accessibility service "iPhone Notifications" (accessibility services are currently the only way to process user notifications on the Android OS).
* You then have to use the "Monitoring" section to choose which apps should raise notifications, and how.
* Status bar notifications must be enabled in the monitored apps for the banners and alerts to appear properly.

How to use it :
* Once you have activated the service and configured the app, you can choose to display each app's notifications as alerts or banners.

Banners :
* Click the notification to launch it
* Swipe to the right to dismiss it
* Swipe to the left to dismiss notifications coming from the same app/contact

Alerts :
* Click "View" to launch it
* Click "Close" to dismiss it
* Long-click the "Close" button to dismiss all notifications
* Swipe to navigate through your notifications

Important information :
* Note that dismissing the notification won’t remove it from the status bar (the Android OS doesn’t currently allow to manually remove 3rd party apps notifications from the status bar).
* If you use a custom lockscreen app such as MagicLocker or WidgetLocker, or if you use the stock Android 4+ lockscreen, banners will show above your lockscreen.
* As a default, notifications will be enabled for SMS, MMS, missed calls, GMail, Talk, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc...

Android Push Notification By GCM (Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM) )

Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their Android applications on Android devices. This could be a lightweight message telling the Android application that there is new data to be fetched from the server (for instance, a movie uploaded by a friend), or it could be a message containing up to 4kb of payload data (so apps like instant messaging can consume the message directly). The GCM service handles all aspects of queueing of messages and delivery to the target Android application running on the target device
This document describes how to write an Android application and the server-side logic, using the helper libraries (client and server) provided by GCM.
Check these links,
http://developer.android.com/guide/google/gcm/gs.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/google/gcm/demo.html
http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/basic4android-getting-started-tutorials/19226-android-push-notification-gcm-framework-tutorial.html
http://fundroiding.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/google-cloud-messaging-for-android-gcm-simple-tutorial/
for client side app you can find the code here
https://github.com/marknutter/GCM-Cordova

Friday, 1 March 2013

Using Drupal Taxonomy to Post Content


Now that we have created the vocabulary and we have added terms to it, we can use it when posting content on the web site. 
tags
Note that the tags option auto completes the vocabulary field with one of the terms we have created before.

If you choose terms from the vocabulary they will be displayed as tags on the page you have posted them as shown below:
tags
Note that the terms presented do not indicate their underlying structure to the reader. The vocabulary just displays all terms for this content item.

The Drupal taxonomy provides a great way to manage the content sorting of your web site. Those are just basic examples and you can achieve amazing results extending the taxonomy vocabularies and terms for your web site.

How to change the default Drupal theme?


The default Drupal installation comes with several themes which can be changed from your administration area. Log in as an administrator, click on Administer -> Appearance and choose which theme you want to use for your website.
Appearance

How to install new Drupal themes?

Drupal keeps its skins in the themes subfolder. To install additional themes, you can get the theme from the Drupal official theme resource. Extract the files under the themes subfolder. This can be done through cPanel -> File Manager.
If you don't have cPanel or you prefer using an FTP client, you can extract the archived theme to your computer and then upload the theme's files to the themes folder in your Drupal installation directory.
You should now be able to see the theme at your Drupal Administration Area -> Appearance. Enable it and set it as default.
enable theme
The Update tab allows to view the outdated themes and get the new versions.
Appearance Update
In the Settings section you can manage the global visualization settings for your web site. You can also overwrite them per each theme.
Drupal Appearance

Managing an Existing Vocabulary


There are 3 actions you can take with an existing vocabulary.
  • Edit Vocabulary -  This refers to changing the settings you have chosen upon creating the vocabulary.
edit vocabulary
  • List Terms - It will display a list of all terms currently added to this vocabulary.
list terms
  • Add Terms -  This will allow you to add a new term to an already created vocabulary.
add terms
By default the terms list for a newly created vocabulary will be empty. You will need to create terms for the vocabulary via theAdd terms functionality:
Tags
We have added several terms in our vocabulary and here is how the list looks now:
Terms
You can now edit each of the terms you have added by clicking the corresponding button. Drupal allows you to adjust the terms order. You can do so by holding down the left mouse button on the cross icon at the left and dragging the term to the desired position in the list.

Note that when creating or editing a term you have relations you can set for it.
add terms
Those settings will provide you with four different options.
1. You will be able to define an already existing term as parent term for the new one. Note that if you hold down Ctrl you will be able to set more than one term as parent for the new one. Note that setting multiple parents for a single item will disable the drag and drop list functionality. It will be re-enabled if you reduce the parents for each term to one.
parent terms
2. You can set the weight for each term. The same as with vocabularies this resembles the order in which the terms will be listed in the vocabulary.
weight
Once you have made the desired changes click the save button.

How to install/enable Drupal modules?


You can enable/disable Drupal Modules from the Drupal Administration area -> Modules section.
Drupal Modules
The default installation of Drupal has many useful modules, and there is a brief description of what each one of the modules does. If you need more modules, you can freely download them from the Drupal Modules official website.
On your site, Drupal modules are stored in the modules subfolder within the Drupal installation directory. You can install additional modules by simply unzipping them in that folder. Alternatively, you can use the Install new module functionality.

How to install/enable the Nice Menus module?

We will demonstrate the module installation process in Drupal by installing the Nice Menus module.
Visit Drupal Modules website and find the Nice Menus module. Download the corresponding version to your local hard-drive. Then upload the archive in the modules folder of your Drupal installation and extract it.
Make sure its dependencies are enabled. Then enable the Nice Menus module and save the new configuration.
Enabled module
You can also check for the modules that need update in the Update tab.
Modules Update
The Uninstall section lists the disabled external modules that can be uninstalled from your system.
Modules uninstall